Switch by Kaiya-chan

Theme 1: Introduction

In the beginning, when the Inuyoukai first came into existence, she was Female and she was named Inuko. Dogs child.

Inuko was the very personification of loyalty and strength, her brilliant white fur and pitch gold eyes were the envy and admiration of many. She was one of the strongest fighters in the lands, yet she felt no need to prove it by putting herself above others and forcing them to subjugate before her. She felt that true strength need not seek approval, as it could be seen in a moment’s notice.

Furthermore, she believed that the only way to live was with dignity and respect; only in that could one both gain respect and maintain dignity.

Her wisdom won her the loyalty of many Youkai and humans, and she was made Lord of the Western lands. When her pups were born, she taught them her philosophy and watched them grown into upstanding and proud Inudaiyoukai. Inuko lived a long life and watched many or her decedents born.

But as all great legends do, hers eventually had to come to an end on the event of her death.

However, rather than moving on to the next world, Inuko chose instead to remain behind and watch over her line. She would not interfere with their lives; she only wished to watch them and see them retain the pride in themselves that she held so dear to her.

And so Inuko watched over her clan. For thousands of years, she was pleased with their progress.

But soon she saw changes, of arrogance, of pride and greed. They sought out strength not because of wanting to protect, but to be strong in itself, and while that was not wrong, it was not what she wanted.  

They decided to see all beings as below them, especially humans. Their pride had many of them killed in retaliation. Those who were a little stronger remained alive and continued to convince themselves that they were above all others. Those decendents slowly became cold and irrational; they forgot her wisdom and began perusing traditions that made no sense. They honoured their mating bonds but forgot the true meaning behind them; they sought strength but did not understand why they did so.

Inuko watched in despair as many of her kind dwindled down to almost nothing.

To the rest of the world, the Inuyoukai clan was without comparison, a breed of perfection. Beauty, strength and pedigree.

But to Inuko, they were nothing more than her ultimate disappointment.

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This story has actually been buzzing about in my head for years but it didn’t really have any structure. But now thanks to inspiration from numerous one-shot collections which I have fallen in love with (mainly forthright’s) and the 100 Themes Art Challenge by Dani on Brain Dead, It is now born.  Reading one shot collections made me really wanna write one.

Im also going through and editing it to get rid of some of the grammar and typo mistakes.

So please please please review